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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1944
Page
5
Chaplain Frederick Gallagher describes two unmarried Marines in the Southwest Pacific region nicknamed Papi by 140 natives. Tungsten is noted as the hardest metal to melt and work.
War analyst DeWitt MacKenzie reports Allied coordination across fronts including the western, Russian, Balkan, Italian theaters and air front. He notes German morale and Goebbels mobilizing youths, Hitler’s finish fight, Patton’s halt and supply lines stressing ports along the English Channel. Steel aluminum plates may become postwar standard for durability.
Jaycees of Amarillo conduct a weekly waste paper drive to aid war efforts. Led by collection chairman Louis Ridings, volunteers haul paper from the business district to city box cars on Tyler Street. Proceeds fund charitable groups as local merchants back the twice weekly collection program.
After 32 years the Colorado Gulf Highway Association seeks a new title describing a route from Alaska through Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and the Pan American Highway to Guatemala. The Memphis convention reviewed postwar plans and preservation of the C-6, with leaders highlighting extensions from Denver to the Alberta border and Fort Worth to Beaumont. Judge Hugh L. Small praised the group for its early strip maps and traveler information bureaus.
Pattern 9246 offers a sundress jacket and skirt with transfer included. Sizes range from 12 to 44 with specific yardage given for size 16. Send sixteen cents to Amarillo News Pattern Dept for the pattern and fifteen cents more for Marian Martin Summer Pattern Book.
A 1944 Texas political statement asserts Regular Democrats of Texas defend constitutional government against CIO, Communists, and bolters. It denounces Sidney Hillman and calls for control of the September Democratic Convention to prevent anti democratic influence and preserve party principles.
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